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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, April 28, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 28, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 suspected spies Cut Deal sources say Ames reportedly to get life in prison wife a lesser term by the new York times Washington a Federal grand jury tuesday indicted Aldrich h. Ames on charges of spying for Moscow As the career Cia officer signed a plea agreement accepting life in prison with out parole in return for leniency for his wife people involved in the Case said. Under the Deal Ames has agreed to help authorities assess the damage he caused a lengthy process that began months ago. Sources said he was willing to accept the Deal to obtain a lighter sen tence for his wife Rosario. She would then be Able to be reunited sooner with their 5-year old son Paul who is being cared for by relatives in her native country of Colombia. Other pending action in the Case will effectively end the trickle of Public Dis closures from the government about the ameses espionage and could bring the Case to a close without an explanation of major questions that have swirled around the couple since their arrest feb. 21. Most lawyers predicted the Case would end without a trial particularly because it threatened to Force the Fri and Cia to explain in Public How Ames was Able to sell secrets to the Kab for nearly 10 years eluding detection even though he answered deceptively on routine poly graph exams flaunted his unexplained wealth and displayed other signs that to counterintelligence experts Aje Strong indications of espionage such As unauthorized foreign travel. The sealed indictment is to be Dis closed at a hearing today when the ameses Are expected to enter their guilty pleas. V " the indictment accuses Ames 52, of espionage and conspiracy to avoid paying income taxes in connection with failing to report any of the More than $2.5 million that prosecutors have said Ames was paid during his 10-year career As a Dou ble agent. Prosecutors Are expected to accuse his 41-year-old wife of a lesser espionage of sense and an income tax count that could result in a prison sentence of 63 months to 72 months under Federal sentencing guidelines. Federal prosecutors who say Ames is the most senior career Cia officer Ever to admit to spying for the Kremlin  comment on whether the grand jury had returned the indictment. But other people who have closely Fol Lowed the Case said Rosario Ames was not named in the sealed indictment. She will be charged directly by Federal prosecutors and will plead guilty they said. As part of the plea agreement signed tuesday by the ameses government Law yers scheduled the hearing for this morn King before judge Claude Hilton of . District court lawyers in Trie Case said. They Are expected to enter guilty pleas and in a somewhat unusual procedure Ames is expected to be sentenced immediately. His wife is Likely to be sentenced at a later Date. For. Signal to change before proceeding in gorillas in their midst it can be a Jungle out there even on the highways of Alaska As some motorists May discover if they come across this hairy Road worker waving at them. The state s department of transportation purchased two sex official wins Bias suit against Catholic u University Milwaukee a a jewish administrator who claims she was pushed out of her Job because official sat Marquette University wanted someone younger and roman Catholic was awarded $300,000 by a jury. The attorney for the Jesuit University Barry , said that he was shocked by monday s verdict and that the University would Appeal. Carol Peterson 43, ended her 12-year career at mar Quette in 1992 by resigning As an assistant Dean for housing services. Peterson claimed that shortly after the University presi Dent the Rev. Albert j. Duiho took office in 1990, she heard him say he planned to return the nature of the University to its fundamental Catholic  Marquette officials deny Diulio made that exact statement and said Diulio never meant Marquette would discriminate against non catholics. They con tend Peterson was not offered a new contract because of poor performance. Mechanical gorillas to help direct traffic at Highway construction Sites. Highway Crew members can use a Remote control unit to direct slow and Stop signs held by the great apes. A of Tyg Tucson Ariz a six men were acquitted of plot Ting to ship 2,900 bomb detonators Cross country on greyhound bus then Send them to the Irish Republican army. A Federal jury deliberated for 13 hours Over three Days before finding the men innocent of All charges tues Day. They had faced up to 65 years in prison if convicted. Thank god for the jury system in America said defendant Denis Leyne. It s the safety net Between persecution and  the four Irish born defendants support a unified ire land but deny involvement with the Ira the two defendants born in America deny knowing the others. The judge had called the government s Case largely circumstantial and assistant . Attorney Robert mis Kell admitted As much in his closing argument none of the six men was alleged to have been present when the detonators were bought in 1989. While we Are disappointed with the verdict that s the Way the jury system works . Attorney Janet Napolitano said in a statement. Informant Marvin c. Jameson who ran an Arizona Gold mine testified that he and Kevin Mckinley bought 2,900detonators from the Greco inc. Mining Supply company in "1989 they repacked the detonators into boxes and snip Ped them from Tucson to new York by greyhound bus Jameson said. Some Greco detonators were found in Northern Ireland and one was part of an unexploded bomb discovered in a London Telephone Booth prosecutors said. But they were unable to prove that the detonators in Ireland came from the Batch Jameson bought. Prosecutors blew up a school bus to demonstrate what might have happened had the detonators exploded in Tran sit but the video was never shown to the jury. O.  goes to Rescue of Grant s Tomb new York a admirers and the great great grandson of former president Ulysses s. Grant Are suing Federal agencies to try to Force them to Rescue Grant s Tomb from neglect deterioration and idiots with Spray  the lawsuit filed monday against National Park service officials asks the court to direct the govern ment to take the action necessary to minimally re store the National historic site to the condition it was in 35 years  s when the private Grant Monument association which built the memorial and dedicated it in1897, presented it to the government As a gift. The Park service is responsible for the Tomb s  Park service spokesman Manny Strumpf dismissed the lawsuit As frivolous saying the Plain tiffs Are aware that $500,000 has been earmarked for repairs to the site. Grant who died in 1885, was a civil War hero who led the Union armies of the Northern states to Victory Over the Confederate rebels in the pro slav Ery Southern states. He later became 18th president of the United states. He and his wife Julia Dent Grant were buried in new York City at his request. Their Tomb is at122nd Street and Riverside drive on the highest Point on the Hudson River Shore in  s. Hochman the lawyer who filed the lawsuit said the Monument which gets an estimated100,000 visitors annually is marred by Graffiti stained by urine and littered with garbage and the remnants of satanic rituals. He said charred animal Bones have been found  said the prime mover behind the Law suit is Frank Scaturro a Columbia University Stu Dent who has studied Grant s life with  plaintiff is Ulysses Grant Dietz Grant s great great grandson  
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